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Honey Sriracha Kielbasa Bites

Honey Sriracha Kielbasa Bites are a sweet and spicy appetizer with just 4 simple ingredients that are combined and cooked in your crockpot. They're the perfect game day or party food!

I recently got this big old jar of local honey that I picked up at the local Asian market. Not so Asian, but locals folks are supporting local folks by selling their goods, which is awesome. I'm all about that. When I saw the jars lined up on the shelf in their various golden hues, I knew I had to have one. I had to talk myself out of buying two, but the price was a bit high for my budget, so I stuck with one.

I love to use honey as a sweetener in my cooking. I add it to smoothies, drizzle it on my daughters favorite peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and use it to balance spicy savory dishes.

I love to cut super sweet flavors with a little bit of spice. I was brainstorming recipe ideas that would use my new honey combined with a bit of heat when I remembered that I picked up a bottle of sriracha chili sauce, too. Honey sriracha! Just sounds yummy, right? Did to me!

But honey sriracha what? I have been loving football food lately (actually, when am I not loving game day grub?), so I wanted to incorporate the honey sriracha flavor into a great finger food app that would be good to serve to a crowd.

Then it hit me...kielbasa!

We eat lots of kielbasa in our house, specifically turkey kielbasa. I knew that a sweet and spicy sauce would go great with it!

And you know what? I was right.

These little babies were niiiiice and sweet with just a little bit of sriracha kick. I loved them! I like spicy, so next time I might even go with a little extra hot sauce.

These are really the best manly munchy food for football games, amiright? I mean, little hunks of kielbasa? Totally manly. Haha. Manly or not, they are totally good, simple to prepare, and a great little nibble to serve to guests if you're having a party!

Honey Sriracha Kielbasa Bites

Ingredients

2 (13 ounce) pkgs. turkey kielbasa

1 cup apricot preserves

1/4 cup honey

1 Tbsp sriracha hot sauce

Instructions

Slice the kielbasa into bite sized pieces. and place into the slow cooker.

In a bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients. Pour over the kielbasa and stir to coat.

Cover and cook on high for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally.

Notes

Don't go with cooking these all day long. The meat is better when this is cooked for the time suggested and then removed from the crock pot.